Using web technique in the managing regulatory requirements of medical equipment for the nursing department

Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2006:Suppl:6773-6. doi: 10.1109/IEMBS.2006.260944.

Abstract

The centralized and information management are in common use technique of modern management. The management of the medical equipment emphasized in the purchase and the maintenance management in early days,and cost down now is import factor for medical equipment management because the health insurance system causes the hospital budget reduced, so in the cost down strategy is to reduce the amount of money and promoting the efficient of use . Another important subject in medical equipment management is patient safety, so how to ensuring the quality of medical equipment is also having to notice. In the paper, we will provide an architecture for assistant the nursing department to develop a information system on the centralized and information management of valuable medical equipment. Through the system operation we hope can promote the effect and the quality of the medical equipment usage. This system implement up to now has more than half a year, and could acquired some concrete result: the utilization rate promotes doubly, the rate of breaking downs, the borrowed time cuts 75%, the cost downs for equipment purchase and satisfaction increases for user. In this paper, in addition to explaining the above-mentioned result,also discusses the design principle and structure on the whole system. We hope the protocol could be used as for clinical unit to control their valuable equipments and match the authority expectation.

MeSH terms

  • Equipment Safety
  • Equipment and Supplies, Hospital*
  • Hospital Information Systems*
  • Internet*
  • Materials Management, Hospital*
  • Nursing Care*